April 17th, 2012· Fixed: The PC woke up even if no events had the 'wake-up' option enabled.
· Fixed: When the option "Do not create empty destination folders" was enabled and the backup method was "Archive bit" there were erroneous "path not found" errors.
· Fixed: Zip archives were still being built with comments inside.
· Fixed: If using the "Build a Single zip archive" option together with "Do not create empty destination folders" the program crashed.
· Fixed: When creating destination folders with network path names longer than 260 characters, the program could occasionally crash.
· Fixed: When running as a Service, Tasks defined to be executed at backup end were executed under the SYSTEM account if no user is logged on.
· Fixed: The message "Disable Virtualization failed..." is no longer shown in Program.log if running under Windows XP.
· Fixed: The Dupl. & Edit button edited the job instead of duplicating and then editing.
· Fixed: Setting an "At end do:" command in the Progress tab did not override the specific Adv. Backup tab setting.
· Fixed: The date and time of destination folders were recorded as the date and time of the backup instead of as the source date and time, even if the option "Create Destination folder with the Source date and time" was active.
· Fixed: On the Wizard the program failed to create a new destination folder using the popup menu (right click).
December 6th, 2011· Added: When the backup is paused then the program icon now changes to one with a || sign indicating it is paused.
· Added: Italian, German and French translation packages.
· Changed: When there are scheduler events enabled and the user tries to exit or to press the upper right [x] the program now hides instead of showing a message box.
· Fixed: When Windows Explorer was set to not show extensions for known files then the Restore Explorer failed to list .zip files.
· Fixed: When using the tray icon bar menu selection "Backup and Shutdown Windows" the program crashed.
· Fixed: The option "Skip predefined folder names" was always active even if disabled.
· Fixed: If the Scheduler started a backup while you were editing a single job then the Job would be missing.
November 23rd, 2011· Added: Simple mode has been added to hide the advanced options that many users don't need. The user can easily switch between the modes at any time, and changes made to "Advanced" options will remain set in Simple mode. The intent is to provide a simplified, easier-to-use interface while still keeping available all the options that make GRBackPro so flexible and powerful.
· Added: Added a Message Center to help users find potential problems and to receive messages during operation
· Added: Set Factory Default button in the Options tab to allow user to reset all options to a known state
· Added: On the Scheduler tab the Events list is now sortable.
· Changed: Changed the tabs layout in order to support Simple/Advanced modes
· Changed: Report tab has been renamed to Reports
· Changed: Simplified the “Restore What” options in the Restore tab
· Changed: Replaced most Message Boxes with less intrusive Balloon messages
· Changed: Modified the “Skip predefined folder names” option in order to allow the user to select what folder names are to been skipped
· Changed: Changed the Tabs order. The Schedule tab has been moved to beside the Progress tab. It is now possible to view the Schedule list even when a backup is running.
· Changed: When a user specifies a command line .grb file to use and the file does not exist or the path is malformed then the program now asks if you want to quit or continue using the default .grb file.
· Changed: On the Edit Job dialog, when the user selects the option "Include all sub-folders" a warning is displayed to advise that this option works at run time.
· Changed: When using the single zip feature the option "Do not create empty destination folders" has been implemented and enabled in the Adv. Backup tab.
· Changed: The Zip archives are now built without comments inside.
· Removed: Removed some old and unused options
· Removed: Event to start a backup at Windows shutdown has been removed to comply with the new Windows 7 rules
· Removed: “Exclude files before day” option has been re-mapped to include file younger than N days.
· Removed: The option to save the backup definition file GRBakpro.grb has been removed and it is now always active.
· Removed: The option to create the source folder file list ($backup.dir) has been removed and the file is no more created.
· Removed: The Zip filename post string has been removed from the Backup tab. The program converts these options to the corresponding one of the destination layout first combo box.
· Removed: On the Restore tab, the edit box that lets the user type a zip archive filename and related buttons ">>" and "Default" has been removed. These options have been replaced by a combo box that is similar to the Backup tab combo box.
· Removed: Option "Exclude files before day A, month B, year C" has been removed from the Adv. Backup tab. Dates not older than 2999 days have been automatically converted to the option "Include files" younger than X days in the Backup tab.
· Fixed: If the user has defined an access password and also selects to start hidden then he will not be asked to enter the password at program start.
· Fixed: The Ask Support email size limit was not being correctly checked and thus email was sent even if the resulting message was too big.
· Fixed: The program update advisor dialog was missing the program name and icon.
· Fixed: The "Abort" button was not functioning correctly while deleting files and folders during a Full backup.
· Fixed: When the user enabled the option "Move the files to the destination folder(delete source)" a warning message was issued at every program start instead of only one time.
· Fixed: When the option to "Build a single zip archive with stored path names" was active the Restore of that archive failed.
· Fixed: On the Add/Edit Event dialog the date and time controls have been made more precise and easier to set.
· Fixed: When the option "Warn if a backup was executed more than N days" was active and no backup had been run since installation, then the program issued a warning with a value greater than 15000 days.
· Fixed: Depending on previous version settings, the Restore tab option "What to Restore" could be not selected. In addition, it would generate a Restore error of "path name too long".
June 15th, 2011· Fixed: Under certain circumstances, when running as a Service and a dialog was open, the program was taking more than 50% CPU time.
· Fixed: When doing a search on a big log in the Report tab the wait dialog didn't automatically close.
· Fixed: On the Add/Edit Job dialog, when creating a sub-folder without first expanding the associated folder, an endless loop was created.
· Fixed: The scheduler function to repeat every hour, day or month failed to start the first time (you needed to manually start it).
· Changed: On the Report tab the rotating icon when scanning the log has been increased in size and the wait dialog has been removed.
· Fixed: When trying to change the zip compression level using the up and down arrows the program crashed.
· Fixed: Some oddities using the "include all sub-folders" and the check box status.
· Fixed: In the Add/Edit dialog the "Libraries" item was not shown.
· Fixed: An error message has been added when the user selects a source folder that doesn't have a corresponding real path.
· Added: Warning message when using a single zip with split and more than one Job is defined.
· Added: Log entry for skipped files that are older than a specified date.
· Fixed: The option "Exclude files older than" in the Adv. Backup tab was not working properly.
· Changed: The Add/Edit Job dialog is now faster than in previous versions.
· Changed: When the single zip option is active and the Split mode is active all the zip parts are now stored into the same destination folder.
· Fixed: SSL protocol has been updated so that the connections to native SSL SMTP servers like gmail.com now succeeds at first attempt.
· Fixed: Restoring or Verifying multi file zip archives (built with the single zip option) sometimes generated CRC errors.
· Fixed: When deleting folders from the destination tree in the Add/Edit Job dialog a crash could happen.
· Added: New option in the Job tab popup menu to edit and set the destination path to all jobs or selected ones.
· Changed: French, German and Italian translations have been updated.
April 29th, 2011· Fixed: Crash when trying to test the email options from the Options tab, "Email Options" button dialog.
· Fixed: Scheduler event with wake-up - there was the possibility to miss an event if the PC goes to sleep too near a scheduler event start time.
· Fixed: The backup of the program settings file GRBakPro.grb was being done after the logoff when running as a Service. Thus if the destination path was a network folder it failed. The timing of this backup has now been changed to prevent this problem.
· Fixed: In rare situations, pressing the Abort button during a backup execution could cause an infinite program loop.
· Added: On the Scheduler tab, when the focus is on the Event list pressing the Enter key will open the edit box for the Event.
· Fixed: On the Single File Restore Explorer if the zip archive has any errors and you tried to restore a file from inside it no error message appeared and the operation appeared to be correctly and completely executed.
· Fixed: When restoring using the option "What to restore" set to "Copy all files" the program failed to restore new files.
· Fixed: There were some situations where a disk full condition was erroneously reported as "Aborted by the user" at backup end, even if the report showed an error.
· Fixed: GRBackPro was set to an excessively broad definition for "Registry Files" and when "Skip Registry Files" was set some files were being skipped that should not have been.
· Fixed: The Scheduler was rounding up seconds and thus a backup could be executed twice if the backup duration was under one minute.
· Added: New Service Administration dialog. Appears when a copy installed as a Service is running a backup and you run a second copy of the program.
· Fixed: If a Session name contains commas or semicolons then the program fails to schedule these sessions correctly. A test has been added to disallow those symbols from the session name.
· Fixed: The Report "Operation activities" list sometimes showed "Nothing to Display" while in reality there were lines to display.
· Fixed: Some errors were being reported correctly on the Report tab but the error count was not being incremented.
· Changed: German, French and Italian translations.
· Added: The "Abort" button is now available while Tasks that happen at backup start are running.
· Fixed: When using the Export button on the Report tab the program would write a corrupted log report file or hang.
· Added: A button to reset the license on the about dialog.
· Added: SSL both native or TLS support has been added to send out email messages. Helpful if you want to use gmail.com for example.
· Added: The service installation now supports user access specification using the file GRSrv.ini file: see help file for more details.
· Changed: Service user interface now follows policy. A user's UI access will be retained even if another user logs in. The UI will switch to another user only when the first one logs off.
February 24th, 2011· Added: The Add/Edit and the Select Path dialogs now show icons as dimmed, shared or link overlay (as appropriate).
· Changed: During a backup if the option to verify the backed up archives was active then it was erroneously executed even if there were backup errors.
· Fixed: The Windows 7 Professional version was being incorrectly identified in log entries.
· Fixed: The status of VSS was being incorrectly reported in the log.
· Fixed: Certain kinds of delete errors were not properly logged.
· Fixed: Some hidden folders were not shown in the Add/Edit Job dialog (e.g., the AppData folder). This folder is now visible while links are still filtered out (not shown).
· Fixed: The log would display strange characters when a zip archive was corrupted.
· Fixed: An error in the Restore/Verify analysis phase was not correctly reported in the progress tab.
· Fixed: When Verifying or Restoring and the Bak_sd option is active in the Backup tab then the Verify/Restore wasn't performed if the backup source was not ready. Additionally, the operation didn't show any error.
· Fixed: On the Progress tab, when horizontally scrolling, the vertical lines were not properly cleared.
· Fixed: Minor cosmetic adjustments to the screen layout.
· Fixed: When there were too many items in the program tab list, the program failed to abort the operation and thus the user got an infinite sequence of error messages.
· Fixed: When the "Verify after backup" option was enabled but the backup had errors then the program failed to execute any tasks set in the Tasks tab.
· Fixed: Under certain circumstance the automatic update at program start could cause a crash.
· Fixed: When using the single zip feature the program failed to delete the backup file if the backup method was set to "full".
· Fixed: When a new version is found the program asks if you want to upgrade. If you answer No then the program could crash.
January 28th, 2011· Added: Italian DLL first release.
· Added: German DLL first release.
· Added: French DLL first release.
· Changed: Moved option "Test if Src and Dest file have same date but different size" from Options tab to Backup tab. The option has been also renamed to "Display Error if Source and Destination files have same date but different sizes" for a better understanding of the related program action.
· Changed: Moved option "Test if Src and Dest file have same date but different attributes" from Options tab to Backup tab. The option has been also renamed to "Force Backup even if Source and Destination files have different attributes" for a better understanding of the related program action.
· Changed: The above two options are now at session level rather than at global as before. This means that every backup session can now have different settings.
· Fixed: Bug when loading a foreign language DLL.
· Fixed: Report tab flickering when clicking on the "Only Errors" button and no errors lines were present.
· Fixed: Report tab went into an infinite loop when handling a damaged log file.
· Fixed: When the option "Test if Src and Dest files have the same date but different size" or the option ""Test if Src and Dest files have the same date but different attributes" or both were active the program failed to correctly test the "same date".
· Fixed: When trying to restore a specified source path but that path was empty the program didn't display an error.
· Fixed: When trying to restore to specified destination path but that path was empty the program didn't display an error.
· Fixed: If the user tried to run a Restore and was at the Restore confirmation dialog and GRBackPro scheduler started a backup, then when the user press OK to start the Restore the program crashed.
· Fixed: During a Verify operation the Progress tab displayed "(0) file(s) verified" instead of the correct value, although it was actually doing the Verify correctly.
· Fixed: Under certain unusual circumstances a license check could randomly fail due to an internal delay.
· Fixed: Occasionally a file could not be backed up due to a wrong date and time calculation.
· Fixed: In order to extend zip archive software compatibility the zip archive OS flag has been set to zero.
· Fixed: On some occasions Unicode file name were backed up more than once into the same zip archive.
· Fixed: When the file name contains Latin characters such as òàùèéì the file name was not properly handled inside the zip archive leading to possible errors.
· Fixed: When printing the log to PDF from the Report tab, the program would appear to hang if the log size was greater than about 300MB.
November 29th, 2010· Fixed: Italian DLL was missing empty selections for "JobSrc\" and "Bak_sd" combo boxes.
· Fixed: In Backup tab, when all destination layout options are blanks (except the $backup.zip) then the full backup method erroneously deleted the destination root disk.
· Added: DEP Data Execution Prevention has been enabled.
· Fixed: When running as a Service and switching users while a backup was running a security problem occurred that prevented the backup completing.
· Changed: When the user edits or creates a Job source or destination path from the Job tab popup menu and the path is not available then a warning message is issued but the path is retained. This now allows the user to input a path that is not available yet.
· Fixed: The program was executing some unnecessary tasks when starting, causing long start times.
· Fixed: When using big log files (greater than 100MB) the program was slow to display the hourglass cursor when clicking on the execution list item.
· Changed: A new error message: when the program needs to delete folder trees (full backup method) and an error occurs, there is now an "ignore" button with a 20 second timeout that automatically "ignores" the problem and allows the backup to continue.
· Fixed: When compressing Unicode file names the zip compressor failed to find duplicate entries in the zip archive.
· Fixed: Restore of Unicode file names was wrong on certain situations.
· Added: A "Waiting" dialog message box has been added on the Report tab when searching for text or when searching next or previous error.
· Fixed: When backing up "NTFS security attributes" the program failed sometimes due to a missing memory alignment.
· Fixed: When backing up a whole source disk the program failed to correctly build the destination paths.
· Added: On the Backup tab in Destination Path combo box a new option to add "Odd Day" or "Even Day" folder based on current day value.
· Fixed: With a large number of backup Sessions and/or Jobs (approximately 100), the program crashed due to a buffer overflow.
· Fixed: The option "At backup end do" was not properly handled when if the backup is started by the Scheduler in a backup session different from the curenlty selected one.
· Added: Conditional execution for Scheduler Events. Now you can start a backup conditioned to one of the following: 1. All backup session Job's source and estimation path are available, 2. There is user input (Mouse and keyboard) for more than a specified time amount, 3. The CPU Load has been under a specified percent level for more than a specified time.
· The condition can be programmed to be retried every X minutes and for a maximum of Y minutes.
· Added: Stop button on the Scheduler tab in order to Stop an Event waiting for a condition to be met.
· Added: For the Event "Start At" set to "Program run" a delay has been added so that the Event is triggered after the specified time amount.
· Added: Notes (user comments) on the Job tab at Session level.
· Added: New option to enable or disable the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Services. This option is not yet supported on 64 bit systems.
· Fixed: Program crash when Restoring and the zip archive has an UTF-8 Unicode extension file name.
· Fixed: The program erroneously considered as a Unicode file name any name that had a character other than one of the standard 128 ASCII characters. For example, the characters èéòàùì were being considered as Unicode.
· Fixed: When selecting the value for the auto start delay, the arrow functions were reversed.
· Fixed: When backing up the registry with the "Backup Security Attributes (NTFS only)" option was enabled in the Adv. Backup tab, the program would sometimes fail a copy operation.
· Fixed: Bug when handling Unicode path names during the delete operation of a full backup.
· Fixed: When running as a Service, the log resize operation was opening a temporary file in the current Windows directory instead of the default Windows directory.
· Fixed: Several minor cosmetic issues.
· Added: At "backup end" an option to Restart.
· Added: Blinking text on the progress tab when a Backup simulation or Restore simulation operation is under execution. The blinking is also used to signal a log resize operation, since that can be a long operation if the specified log size is high.
· Changed: The splash screen display has been rescheduled to happen before the main screen appears and now is centered on the desktop.
· Changed: The backup start time has been reduced thus avoiding the long wait and white progress screen.
· Changed: When a task is set that kills a process it will now kill all invocations of a process with that name.
· Added: "Please Wait" dialog when switching to the Report tab. A big backup log file requires more time to open this tab and the program would appear hung during this scan. The "Please Wait" dialog is also shown when changing between items in the "execution list".
· Fixed: The speed of program startup and of various operations has been improved.
· Fixed: If running as a Service the program failed to save main window position and size when the computer shutdown.
· Fixed: When installed as a Service, some situations would require user input before a backup could continue. These situations have been altered to have appropriate default responses and automatic time-outs in order that scheduled events can proceed as the user intended.
· Fixed: When restoring from Source / Folder and Destination = "Original source folder" the program failed to correctly create the destination path.
· Changed: The Report tab has been modified to increase the display speed.
June 10th, 2010· Fixed: Folder creation failed when backing up to a UNC path name folder greater than 258 characters.
· Fixed: If a Task sent an email message with the last backup run report attached, and an error occurred creating the file (for example, access denied), then the program crashed.
· Fixed: The Tray Icon bar icon could show the scheduling message and icon for too long.
· Fixed: When the user selected Exit from the Tray icon there was no warning about the Scheduler needing to have the program running.
· Fixed: The setup procedure now correctly sets the security on the GRBackPro data folder.
· Fixed: After first installation if the user had already enabled automatic software updates then the program asked again if the user wanted to enable automatic updates.
· Fixed: Reworded "Check all weekdays" to "Check all days" in the Add/Edit Scheduler Event so that it is clearer that all 7 days will be checked/unchecked.
· Added: Italian DLL.
· Fixed: Deleting a backup session on the Job tab caused the program to hang.
· Added: The Open, Read, Create, Write and Not Ready errors have been enhanced with the addition of an Abort button and a "Disable these error messages (put errors in log only)" check box.
· Fixed: When using the Split mode with many small files compared to a few big files then GRBackPro failed to correctly split the folders with the specified size.
May 17th, 2010· Fixed: With access password enabled, when exiting the program (without entering a password) after clicking on Cancel, you needed to click the Exit button twice.
· Fixed: When starting "hidden" the program failed to hide itself completely -- the task bar showed a flashing icon.
· Fixed: Due to a buffer calculation error the program could crash if handling a corrupted log file.
· Fixed: When converting from version 5 GRB file, the option "On Manual backup completion do:" was not correctly handled if it had been disabled.
· Fixed: When the "Execute missed backups" option is active in the Scheduler tab and a weekly Event is added then it started every day even if programmed to start on a specified week day only.
· Fixed: Wrong handling of Scheduler Event Monthly when option "Execute missed backups" is active.
· Fixed: The setup failed to properly assign security attributes to GRBackPro data folders and in some cases this could lead to losing user settings or the license code.
· Fixed: The access password was incorrectly saved in the current backup session settings with the result that if you changed the backup session the access password became inactive.
· Added: More diagnostic details for the Ask Support feature in the program.log file.
April 28th, 2010· Fixed: The Wizard Job Options dialog, Include / Exclude files option always included files.
· Fixed: The Wizard Source path dialog option "Include all sub-folders" didn't show the sub-folders selected when activated.
· Added: In the Wizard Destination path selection the right click popup menu to create/rename/delete folders.
· Fixed: The Backup button shield icon was not updated when you changed the backup session.
· Fixed: Bug where if the single zip option was active some files were backed up repeatedly.
· Fixed: If running as a Service the program failed to download the Server package update.
· Fixed: When using UNC names in the JobSrc\ option in the Backup tab, some folders were not correctly backed up to the destination path.
· Fixed: Option "Delete empty source folders after move" in the Adv. Backup tab was not yet activated.
· Added: Diagnostic about Backup options in the backup log if log mode is "Debug".
· Fixed: A file with size zero was not excluded.
· Fixed: "Reparse points" were not skipped when using the single zip feature.
April 24th, 2010· Fixed: The tab control user interface item because it caused a delay on all operations.
· Fixed: When user press the "Check for Updates" button and there isn't internet connection the wait dialog simply disappeared instead to show an error message.
· Fixed: If the Service encountered an error it failed to show the description and only showed the error number.
· Changed: The "Email Options" dialog now automatically fills in the "Send To" field with the "Sender Email address" and the "SMTP Server" with the "Sender Email address" domain name.
· Fixed: If the Scheduler Event called for First Friday of a month it failed to calculate the correct next start date.
· Fixed: The log resize algorithm that caused log file corruption in certain cases.
· Fixed: Removed spurious entry in the log when a Verify operation is performed.
· Fixed: Version 6 scheduled weekly and daily events were not being converted correctly to Version 7 format.
· Fixed: Somtetimes the taskbar icon was not correct after a backup completed.
April 24th, 2010· Fixed: If destination drive is not ready and GRBackPro is running attended then the Error message would loop forever if the user did not press the Cancel button. A maximum of 10 loops has been added then the retry loop is automatically closed.
· Fixed: On some installations the program failed to retain the user license and even the user settings.
· Fixed: Single zip archive bug generated a recursive folder name appended to the destination path while adding files.
· Fixed: When the single zip archive option is enabled the program failed to skip files.
· Added: When a backup is started by the Scheduler all error messages now have a timeout of 10 seconds.
· Fixed: Possible problem running as a Service if the Terminal Services are not yet started.
· Fixed: The message box that asks if the user wants to enable automatic updates was automatically closed if GRBackPro was starting hidden.
· Changed: The Libraries are no longer listed in the folder tree because they do not have a direct corresponding path name meaning that selecting them is not meaningful.
April 14th, 2010· Fixed: Crash bug if error happens when trying to compress the log file in the Ask Support feature
· Fixed: Scheduling error handling the weekly event recur parameter.
· Fixed: Removed Crash Test button from the Options tab
· Fixed: Selecting a long destination path resulted in a wrong path if the Add/Edit Job dialog was small.
· Fixed: When restoring and "copying all files" the program didn't restore any file. It only created the folders.
· Fixed: When updating the software on Windows Server it downloaded the Workstation package.
April 14th, 2010· New customizable look and feel
· Windows 7 security full support
· REQUIRES minimum Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
· Separated Workstation and Server editions
· Server edition can run as a Service
· Zip64 archive format with unicode file names support
· Unicode file names supported when copying
· New Tasks tab
· New Task to end a process
· Windows Volume Shadow Copy support
· Long path names supported up to 1024 characters
· New Scheduler completely rewritten with more options
· Automatic software updater
· Added new move option to delete empty folders after move
· Added option to execute at windows start in the Options tab
· New error messages with automatic retry capability
January 22nd, 2010· Fixed: When the user changed the log file path name it did not change until the next run.
· Fixed: If the log file path didn't exists the program failed to create it.
· Added: Program.log entry when the user enabled the "Move" option.
· Fixed: Potential problem with a corrupted log file.
· Fixed: If the program is running as a Service and the user doesn't specify a login this is no longer considered an error in the backup execution. The event is indicated in the log as an information warning.
· Added: Program.log entries during logon when running as a Service
· Fixed: When running as a Service and executing a Verify operation then the option "At End do" is enabled while it should remain disabled.
· Added: More diagnostics on File Read Errors.
· Fixed: On the Adv. Backup tab, if you set an option and then click on the tasks Edit... button then your current settings are lost and you have to re-enter them.
· Fixed: Files with date older than 1-1-1980 got backed up repeatedly.
· Fixed: Executing a program after the backup would apparently hang the program. It was waiting for the program completion before proceeding.
· Fixed: Bug in the Restore Single file explorer window
· Changed: The Crash Report utility has been improved and tries now to send the report directly to our mailbox without using any customer email program. If it fails then it tries to send the email message using the default email program registered into the system.
September 24th, 2009· Fixed: On the Add/Edit Job dialog selecting a virtual folder results in an empty Job source path.
· Fixed: When the Move option is active the program also deleted the empty source folders.
· Fixed: Temporary folder error when using an additional folder (destination path layout).
· Fixed: Copy error = 0 while backing up the registry.
· Fixed: Stack out of memory problem with deep folder structures.
September 8th, 2009· Fixed: When running as a Service, the Temp path was erroneously set to the Service login user profile directory.
· Fixed: When changing the display color scheme the Job, Report and Progress tab didn't update the background color.
· Fixed: On the backup tab if you set the Destination path layout first combo box and then exit the program, when you run it again you have lost your setting.
· Fixed: Using the Ask Support dialog if something goes wrong with connecting to the SMTP server then the program didn't allowed to exit from the dialog as the Cancel button and the X button were disabled.
July 16th, 2009· Fixed: Command line parameter /? tried to open the old .hlp file instead of the new .chm file.
· Changed: If running as a Service the help button was disabled. Now it is enabled and when pressed it will display a message box that tells you: "Please access the help file from the Start menu".
· Fixed: A bug with the temporary zip archive created in the destination disk when the Temp path option is empty.
· Fixed: Error: while creating temporary file on: \_GRB000
June 29th, 2009· Fixed: Full backup mode delete destination disk. The program missed to delete multiple destination path if on the same destination drive
· Fixed: Bug in split mode. Some files were not included in the backup zip archives
· Fixed: If the program is installed as a Service it was possible to execute a second program instance using the same .grb file
· Fixed: Upon updating a zip archive the zip file archive bit attribute was not set
· Added: Message Box when the user enable the "move" option because this is an unsafe option
· Added: More log details during restore operations
· Fixed: If the specified temp path (Backup tab) doesn't exists the program forgot to create it and issued an error message
· Fixed: On the Backup tab when you change the first combo box and then you change another option you lost the first change
· Fixed: The verify after the backup had the icon animation turned off
· Changed: If running with a Windows Server license, the Icon Tray menu no more shows the option to "Backup and shutdown windows"
· Fixed: The service log file GRSrv.log had wrong timestamp date
· Fixed: When a backup is aborted and no errors occurred since the abort button pressing then the program executed the "At end do" action
· Fixed: When running as a Service, the option "At backup completion do" also named "At end do" in the progress tab is disabled and forced to "Do nothing"
· Fixed: The Add/Edit Job dialog open time has been speed up
· Fixed: Problem displaying the icons in the Add/Edit job dialog under Windows Vista if running as a Service
· Fixed: Under Vista when a backup is running the other tabs are now drawn as disabled text
· Fixed: When aborting the Verify procedure the program shown the Aborted message box twice
April 24th, 2009· Added: Crash Report feature to easy the user report of program crashes.
· Fixed: Crash when pressing the Job tab "Add Job" button on some Windows Vista installations.
· Fixed: "Single Files" restore feature didn't shown the zip archive files in the left tree view.
· Fixed: Existing splitted zip archives update when the new zip archive size is greater than 2GB.
· Fixed: Restore Single Files - when a zip password is defined.
· Fixed: "Single Files" restore feature didn't shown the zip archive files in the left tree view if Windows Explorer has the option "Disable know extensions" enabled.
· Fixed: Verify and the option "Unhide while backing up" was enabled then the main program window went hidden after the verify completed.
· Fixed: Certain file names containing characters whole ascii code was over 128 could lead to crashes when included in zip archives.
· Fixed: When backup simulation is active and backup mode is FULL then GRBackPro skipped the delete of the previous backup.
· Fixed: On certain cases the full backup do not delete the destination folder contents only but the root disk. This bug could cause data loss!
· Fixed: "Clear archive bit attribute on restored files" option on the Restore tab didn't work correctly.
· Fixed: Folder created during Restore did not restore the original folder attributes.
· Fixed: Execute Tasks feature. When executing an application the program didn't wait its completion.
· Fixed: When you have created a multiple zip archive (.z01, .z02 and .zip for example) and then you remove all source files and synchronization is enabled then the program failed to delete the .z01, .z02. It only deleted the .zip archive.
· Added: When backup mode is Full and a Job source folder is empty then the corresponding destination folder is not deleted preserving a previous backup set.
· Added: Email options button on the Ask support dialog to easily change email settings before to send email to support.
February 5th, 2009· Fixed: Error converting a registry stored license to a license file.
· Fixed: The Restore Explorer window was not defined as child of the main window.
· Fixed: Some problems with the setup procedure. In particular under Windows Vista the program had difficulties storing the program settings and the log file.
February 2nd, 2009· Fixed: Report tab Log display bug
· Fixed: Log file went slightly corrupted when the size limit is reached and the log file needs to be resized.
· Fixed: When running as a Service and entering the license sometimes it was not saved correctly.
· Fixed: When the Split mode is active and the registry is backed up to the destination disk it create a Disk_XX folder instead of the proper disk number.
· Fixed: When the Split mode is active and the registry is backed up to the destination disk and the split size was less then the registry required space the program issue an error and didn't correctly backup the registry.
· Fixed: Under Windows Vista: the registry backup generated and error.
· Fixed: Under Windows Vista: having more than one backup to execute at Windows shutdown the program only executed the first one.
· Added: New menu selection from the Tray icon bar to "Backup and Shut Down Windows". This option will execute all backup sessions that have a scheduler event programmed to run at Windows Shutdown and then at completion it will shown a dialog to allow the user to decide if logoff, restart or shutdown the Computer.
· Fixed: When a Task email the latest log report and this report is very big (more than available memory for example) then the program take a lot of time in order to be able to send the email message because it wanted to load all the log into the memory. Now this has been changed so that the report is created on a temporary file and then this file is read line by line while sending by email.
· Fixed: When running as a Service under Windows Vista and no Temp path was specified in the Backup tab then the destination disk zip archive were not created.
November 19th, 2008· Fixed: some problems in the Demo version.
· Fixed: File names inside zip archives with characters over ASCII 128 (for example European characters) were not correctly converted.
· Fixed: Possible problem that can lead to lose the GRBakPro.grb file (your backup settings).
· Fixed: If the "Attended backup" options was disabled GRBackPro didn't execute the after backup Tasks.
· Fixed: Renamed option "Skip empty source folders" to "Delete empty destination folders" in the Adv. Backup tab.
· Changed: The registry backup reports in the Progress tab the source file instead of the destination one.
· Updated: Setup to conform to Windows XP and Windows Vista standards.
July 30th, 2008· Added: Additional diagnostic messages in the log file (only in Debug log mode).
· Fixed: On some tabs the wait cursor was not always correctly shown.
· Fixed: Disk volume label was changed on hard disk when a disk full condition was reached. Now the program verify that the destination drive is removable or Cd-rom.
· Fixed: Problem with missed backup on Weekly Events.
· Added: String into the log file to indicate if a backup was executed manually or by the scheduler
· Fixed: When a Job didn't have the "Include sub-folder" option enabled and no new or changed files where present in the source folder then the program failed to indicate this in the Progress tab. "No files were found" message was displayed instead of "No new or changed files were found".
· Changed: When the zip file size overcomes the 2GB size and it is automatically splitted or when the Split option is active then the zip archive is moved to the destination disk as soon as it is completed instead to remain in the temporary folder till the whole zip archive is completed. This reduces the temporary folder free space requirements.
· Fixed: When using the "Autostart" option in the Scheduler and you press the Disable button to disable the Event then scheduler kept trying to start the Event again and again till the Stop button is pressed.
· Changed: The scheduler has been mainly changed and reviewed in its inner working in preparation for some feature additions.
· Fixed: The $backup.skp file was no more correctly handled.
· Added: Other then the $backup zip archive file name and its variations we have added other variants because on some file systems the $ is a not allowed character.
July 29th, 2008· Added: Additional diagnostic messages in the log file (only in Debug log mode).
· Fixed: On some tabs the wait cursor was not always correctly shown.
· Fixed: Disk volume label was changed on hard disk when a disk full condition was reached. Now the program verify that the destination drive is removable or Cd-rom.
· Fixed: Problem with missed backup on Weekly Events.
· Added: String into the log file to indicate if a backup was executed manually or by the scheduler
· Fixed: When a Job didn't have the "Include sub-folder" option enabled and no new or changed files where present in the source folder then the program failed to indicate this in the Progress tab. "No files were found" message was displayed instead of "No new or changed files were found".
· Changed: When the zip file size overcomes the 2GB size and it is automatically splitted or when the Split option is active then the zip archive is moved to the destination disk as soon as it is completed instead to remain in the temporary folder till the whole zip archive is completed. This reduces the temporary folder free space requirements.
· Fixed: When using the "Autostart" option in the Scheduler and you press the Disable button to disable the Event then scheduler kept trying to start the Event again and again till the Stop button is pressed.
· Changed: The scheduler has been mainly changed and reviewed in its inner working in preparation for some feature additions.
· Fixed: The $backup.skp file was no more correctly handled.
· Added: Other then the $backup zip archive file name and its variations we have added other variants because on some file systems the $ is a not allowed character.
July 10th, 2008· Fixed: When backing up to a root disk (e.g. f: for example) there were a lot of "Error: while setting attributes on file / folder"
· Fixed: When the "JobSrc" option in the "Destination Path Layout" option group of the Backup tab was disabled then the program failed to create the correct destination folder structure. This problem was not present on version 6.5.x.
· Fixed: Compatibility with Internet Explorer prior to version 4
· Fixed: Terminal Service compatibility with Windows 2000 Professional and Server
· Fixed: Terminal Service Windows 2000 Server ANSI code Microsoft bug. The service failed to run GRBackPro from Remote Login sessions issuing a "Path not found" error.
· Fixed: Terminal Service compatibility with Windows NT4
· Fixed: Setup compatibility with Windows NT4 and 2000
· Fixed: When the option "Simulate backup execution" was active then the "Synchronize archive with source folder" was executed anyway.
· Fixed: When the option "Attended backup (Stop & Prompt for errors and confirmations)" is disabled and a disk full condition occurs the program displayed a dialog box waiting the user to change the destination disk media (as in attended mode).
· Fixed: When running as a Service the Backup Wizard dialog appeared and disappeared after few seconds while GRBackPro hide in the tray icon bar. Now the Wizard is no more shown if running as a Service even if the Job list is empty.
· Added: The Task that send email message has now more details about errors in the email message body text.
· Added: If the program has been installed as a Service and you try to run another copy of the program as a normal application then GRBackPro will check to see if this second instance works on a different .grb file either specified on the command line or coming from the folder from where you start the GRBakPro.exe executable. If the .grb is different from the Service one then another instance is allowed otherwise the Service is simply activated and the second instance is terminated. This behavior avoid possible problems when two instances works on the same .grb file and you change one or more settings.
· Added: For the options "Skip Folders (names)" located in the Add/Edit Job dialog and on the Options tab a test has been added in order to verify if a full path is typed. These options only accept folder names and not full path names. This new check will warn the user about this.
· Updated: Language translations
July 1st, 2008· Fixed: The file $backup.skp was not correctly handled.
· Fixed: When a manual backup was completed and an error had occurred the program did not perform the specified action even if the "Prompt if any error..." option in the Options tab is not enabled. Now if this option is disabled the action is executed even if there are errors.
· Fixed: When executing a Task and the program tries to START a service that is already started an error message erroneously appears.
· Fixed: When changing the Backup Session, sometimes, the program crashes.
· Added: When restoring with copy file (i.e. without decompressing) the destination file date and time is made equal to the source file date and time.
· Added: New option in Options tab: "Ignore 1 hour time delay on file compare (NTFS daylight fix)". This option solves the NTFS one hour file time difference when daylight saving is enabled. When using Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, it's possible to use two file systems, FAT32 or NTFS. While FAT32 stores the local time of files, NTFS stores the GMT (English standard time) of the files. When going from Summer (daylight saving) time to Winter (normal) time, the local timestamps on FAT32 will remain the same, while files on NTFS drives will have the time changed by 1 hour because the time zone difference to GMT changes by one hour. Therefore files on FAT32 and NTFS drives which had identical times before the time change will suddenly be different. Thanks to this new option, the files can still be detected as dentical if time difference between them is exactly one hour.
· Updated: Language translations.
· Fixed: There were the possibility to select an empty destination path either with the Browse button that manually editing it. This could cause unexpected behavior.
· Fixed: When the option "Move files to the destination folder (delete source)" was enabled the source empty folders were not deleted.
· Added: Backup summary and error list in the body of the email message sent using the "Execute Tasks" function.
· Fixed: Verify and Restore error "Insufficient memory to inflate" when handling big files.
· Added: Restore and Verify memory usage has been greatly reduced and the execution speed has been increased.
· Added: Running as a Service under Vista, Terminal Services and XP switched users will now see the icon in the tray icon bar. As the program is now always visible by the currently logged in user then the initial message box asking to stop the service has been removed. If the program is lunched after the Service is running then the Service running copy will be opened and the second copy of the program terminated. If a command line grb file is specified, instead, a second copy of the program is allowed because it works on a different configuration.
· Added: When the Verify after the Backup is enabled and exists a Task that emails the last report log the program attaches two separate files: one for the backup and one for the verify operation.
· Added: To the Restore - Single Files - Restore Explorer windows a progress control and the handling of the abort of the restore operation when clicking on the X.
· Added: Program internal log file that is named Program.log. This file details internal operations and possible problems. This will help a lot and speed up the user assistance in case of problems.
· Added: It is now possible to enable the tooltips when running as a Service. Previously they were not compatible with a Service. The help button remain disabled because the help file fails to launch when running as a Service.
January 26th, 2008· Fixed: The "Operation activities" list in the Report dialog didn't allow correct scrolling using the vertical scroll bar.
· Fixed: When the backup is running the About and Pause buttons are less responsive.
· Fixed: When running as a Service the program failed to backup the registry.
· Fixed: Folder Security Attributes were not correctly restored.
· Fixed: Buffer overflow bug in log reporting.
· Added: The number of errors at the end of the log.
December 19th, 2007· Fixed: The "Single files" button in the Restore dialog failed to correctly login when running as a Service.
· Fixed: German version - the "Set Dest." button didn't works.
· Fixed: Under Windows 98 the "At backup end do" combo box didn't list some available options.
· Fixed: The password in the "Service Options" of the Adv. Backup tab can be empty now.
· Added: A Reset button on the Scheduler tab in order to allows the reset of the "Last Executed backup time". This reset can be helpful when the scheduler do not start at specified time because a sufficient time window is not passed.
November 8th, 2007· Fixed: When both the "Move files to the destination folder (delete source)" option and the "Build a single zip archive with stored path names" were active then the program failed to delete the source files and folders.
· Fixed: When a disk full condition was reached and you elected to STOP the backup then the destination disk label was changed anyway.
· Changed: When the verify after backup option was active then the Tasks after the backup were executed after the verification instead of after the backup execution.
· Fixed: When the zip archive file name post string was not blank (for example was ) then the registry backup failed to build the correct zip file name.
· Fixed: When a long file was being verified and the user pressed the Abort button then the program waited too long before stopping the operation.
· Fixed: When a disk full condition was reached and the user stopped the backup then an extra error message was displayed.
· Fixed: On FAT and FAT32 destination disks, files were continuously copied in incremental mode.
· Fixed: When copying a file and a disk full condition happened the program continued asking if you wanted to stop the backup.
· Added: Backup Wizard button on the Job tab. This new button will guide the user on the backup setup in an easiest way. The Wizard button takes the place of the Print button. The print function has been moved into the Job list popup menu (right click on the Job list to see it).
· Added: The Add/Edit Job dialog is now resizable. The modified size is stored in the ini file.
· Added: Program access password.
· Fixed: When a folder was locked by Windows security settings the program wouldn't issue any error.
· Fixed: When a file was locked by another application and the user decided to abort the backup, then the program wouldn't execute the post backup tasks.
· Added: When the program tries to send out an email message and an error occurs then it now ask if you want to retry or not.
· Fixed: The scheduler event monthly failed to start the backup on day 31.
· Fixed: Small problem on the grip resize icon on high DPI display.
· Fixed: On the "Before / After Backup Options" dialog when a Task is moved up or down it failed to stop at top and bottom resulting in a Task modification.
· Fixed: When using the zip password protection and a zip archive was updated to add a new file, then the zip archive got corrupted.
· Added: When a zip archive password change is detected then a message box is displayed in order to suggest that you perform a full backup so that all files into the zip archive will have the same password.
· Added: Enabled backup execution at shutdown under Windows Vista.
· Fixed: On the verify or restore procedure the program missed to ask for a password is password protection was enabled but a password was not defined.
· Fixed: An error while deleting and moving the Before or After backup tasks.
· Fixed: The scheduler event repeat every month sometimes failed to start the backup (for example on November).
June 28th, 2007· Fixed: On the Options tab the buttons: "Email Options" and "Email To Support" moved when you resize the program main window.
· Fixed: The first combo box of the "Destination path layout" option in the Backup tab were not restored at program startup.
· Fixed: On FAT and FAT32 destination disks, when the Daylight saving become active then a full backup always taken place.
· Fixed: If running as a service when editing the Source or Destination path name of a backup Job, using the Job list popup menu, the program failed to login as specified in the Adv. Backup tab.
· Fixed: Memory allocation problem.
· Fixed: The option in the zip file name no more worked.
· Fixed: When copy only (compression disabled) and the destination disk went full the program failed to display the "change disk" dialog and created a destination file of size zero.
· Fixed: Progress Dialog icon loading problems under Windows 2000.
May 8th, 2007· Update with Bug fixes
November 24th, 2006· Update with Bug fixes
September 7th, 2006· Update with Bug fixes
July 1st, 2006· Bug fixes
March 29th, 2006· Update with Bug fixes
March 14th, 2006· Update with Bug fixes
February 28th, 2006· Fixed: The JobSrc option when disabled do not add any sub-folder name to the destination path so that all sub-folders are flattered into the same destination folder.
· Fixed: If you are logged in without Administrator rights, the program fails to read the license information from the registry and thus the program refuse to start asking you for a license.
· Fixed: When you run a backup that create a big report, that overcome the specified log file threshold, then the log file size is not reduced till you execute other two backup run (instead of a single one).
· Fixed: Scheduler start times where sometime imprecise.
· Fixed: An error message appears when you try to backup a file whose size is greater than 2GB even if the backup completes correctly without any error or problem.
· Added: On the Job tab now you can select one or more backup Jobs and then click on the right mouse button to display the popup menu that allows you to "Backup selected Job(s)" or Restore them.
· Fixed: When using the Split function with size over 4GB GRBackPro doesn't correctly calculate the disk size.
· Fixed: When using the Split function and at disk threshold GRBackPro backup a file whose size is greater than 2GB it fails to correctly create the specified disk size.
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